What is the difference between a one day old hen from a rooster?

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What is the difference between a one day old hen from a rooster?

Answer 1

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Methods of chick sexing

There are two chief methods of sexing chicks: feather sexing and vent sexing.

Feather sexing

Feather sexing is easy, but it requires that the chickens be specially bred to manifest their s*x in differences in the feathers as hatchlings. These are usually hybrids, rather than breeds, and are called s*x linked chickens. Male chickens in these breeds have longer wing pinfeathers than the females do, which makes them relatively easy to tell apart. Most chickens do not have these traits bred into them, and the hatchlings are identical to all but the skilled eye of the professional chicken sexer.

Vent sexing

Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves literally squeezing the f***s out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male. Some females have very small bumps, but rarely do they have the large bumps male chicks possess.

The sexual organs of birds are located within the body; the professional vent sexer has studied their external appearance, which can fall into as many as fifteen basic patterns, and learned to identify which ones are male and which female. Many professional vent sexers are Japanese, where the method originated. A seminal paper about vent sexing was published in Japan in 1933 by Professors Masui and Hashimoto, which was soon translated into English under the title Sexing baby chicks. After Masui and Hashimoto's discovery, interested poultry breeders brought in people who had been trained by them to teach the technique, or sent representatives to Japan to learn it.

Alternative methods

Small poultry farmers whose operations are not of sufficient size to warrant hiring a chicken sexer must wait until the hatchlings are four to six weeks old before learning the sexes of their chickens. At that time their secondary s*x characteristics begin to appear, making it possible for anyone with a minimal amount of training to s*x a chicken.

Answer 2

The Hen is Female and the Rooster is Male